Bre Pettis Quotes

We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers.

We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.

Our intention is that people use MakerBots to have a positive impact on the world.

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?

I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary.

3D printing will massively reduce the cost of certain products as the cost of labor is removed.

Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.

3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made.

The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.

Startups are now creating specialized 3-D printers capable of producing everything from synthetic hamburgers to multi-story apartment buildings.

Most people don't feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem.

We're now able to 3D print in 200 different materials, from titanium to rubber, plastic, glass, ceramic, leathers, and even chocolate.

For me, when you put a MakerBot in a school, you add a manufacturing education to the environment where I think we can really empower the next generation to compete in the global economy.

We started MakerBot in 2009 and made a conscious decision to educate people with the possibilities they could do with 3D printing and share with people what is possible.

The 3D-printing technology has been developing at a very rapid pace.

If we could communicate at the speed of thought, we can augment our creativity with the low-level stuff that AI and robots and 3-D printers and fab labs and all that do.

We only invest in businesses that reduce labor.

I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.

Every business has to figure out how to make itself more efficient. They've got to use technology. They've got to use the Internet, things like that. We can do the same thing with our state colleges.

A-POC respects that there is a fine balance between the value of the human touch, which can be called artisanal, and the abilities of technology. I like to think of it as poesy and technology.

I love being part of campaigns and events that are working with kids and just sharing my personal experiences.

I think you always want to have a project where it's not about you: where you're serving it. Where it has needs, and you're trying to meet those needs, so you're trying to lift it out of you and put it out there and then say to people, 'Hey, I think that's it; let's head that way.'

The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.

I believe that in the 21st century, we should arm ourselves with ideas.

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.